Posted by Goose on February 03, 2012 at 10:22:32 from (173.190.237.126):
Bingo!
I visited the archives in our local library first this morning. (That alone is an experience. The room is locked and they stop just short of having an armed guard accompany you).
On the Immanuel cemetery, I found a Caroline Schopp. “Lena” would be a logical nickname for Caroline. The dates of birth and death fit. She was born in 1877, so she would have been 11 during the “Blizzard of ‘88”. Her husband was an L. E. Schopp, and is not to be found in any Seward County cemetery. I also found out my great-grandfather, Frederick Bender, donated the land for the Immanuel cemetery, and his wife, my great-grandmother, was the first burial on the cemetery in 1891. Hers is the small gray stone.
I then went to the Immanuel cemetery and found stones for both Caroline Schopp and Wilhelmine Dargeloh right where the plat said they would be. Caroline’s stone is between Dargeloh and my maternal great-grandmother, Alora Bender. The stones of both Dargeloh and Schopp are obviously new and show signs of having been recently set, with fresh dirt around the bottoms. They were not there the last time I visited the cemetery a couple of years ago. (Dargeloh is spelled with an “o” on the stone, but the only way I’ve ever seen it spelled is with an “a”). Someone interested in both must have made a donation, as the original stones would have been similar to my great-grandmother’s, which dates to 1891.
On the landscape, the farmstead in the center is where my mother grew up. The one on the right, behind the pole, belonged to a great uncle, a brother of my grandfather.
This satisfies my own curiosity. If you have any other questions, I’ll try to answer them.
I could ramble on about family and neighborhood history, but I’ll leave that for another time. My late mother was a good writer, and she filled a large spiral notebook in longhand with anecdotes and stories of her early life and of the family in general including how and when she met my father. She titled it, “The Way Things Were”. I’ve always wanted to retype it on my computer and save it on a flashdrive. Maybe someday…..
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